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MIT Water Summit Convenes Experts to Discuss Global Water Challenges

head of civil engineering; Earl Jones, chairman of the New England Water Innovation Network; MIT civil ... Mechanical Engineering red Collaboration Culture International LIENHARD@MIT.EDU As the world’s population ... More than 200 people attend second annual summit organized by the MIT Water Club. As the world’s ...

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Creating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way

Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, vice president of robotics research at TRI, ... Neural networks have made a seismic impact on how engineers design controllers for robots, ... verifying Lyapunov conditions didn’t scale well to complex machines. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science ...

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AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies

billions of potential contact events, planning for this task quickly becomes intractable. Now MIT ... these decisions and come up with contact-rich plans,” says H.J. Terry Suh, an electrical engineering and ... Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial ...

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“Robot, make me a chair”

Gupta, an MIT architecture graduate student; Faez Ahmed, associate professor of mechanical engineering ... an effort to make design faster and more accessible for non-experts, researchers from MIT and ... toward enabling that future,” says lead author Alex Kyaw, a graduate student in the MIT departments of ...

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The physics of curly hair

Pedro Reis, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and ... National Science Foundation, Schlumberger, the MIT-France Program, and a Battelle-MIT postdoctoral ... researchers at MIT and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris provide the first detailed model for the ...

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Making data-informed Covid-19 testing plans

WhenToTest.org has been developed by MIT researchers with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), in ... Anette “Peko” Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and IDSS affiliate who co-developed the tool. ... researchers at IDSS, MIT, and beyond who apply advanced statistical tools to Covid-19 data in order to help ...

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